7 preliminary leaves, 5-349 pages 23 cm

"First trade edition."

Into my own -- Ghost house -- My November guest -- Love and a question -- A late walk -- Stars -- Storm fear -- Wind and window flower -- To the thawing wind -- A prayer in spring -- Flower-gathering -- Rose pogonias -- Waiting -- In a vale -- A dream pang -- In neglect -- The vantage point -- Mowing -- Going for water -- Revelation -- The trial by existence -- The tuft of flowers -- Pan with us -- The Demiurge's laugh -- Now close the windows -- In hardwood groves -- A line-storm song -- October -- My butterfly -- Reluctance -- Mending wall -- the death of the hired man -- The mountain -- A hundred collars -- Home burial -- The black cottage -- Blueberries -- A servant to servants -- After apple-picking -- The code -- The generations of men -- The housekeeper -- The fear -- The self-seeker -- The wood-pile -- Good hours -- The road not taken -- Christmas trees -- An old man's winter night -- The exposed nest -- A patch of old snow -- In the home stretch -- The telephone -- Meeting and passing -- Hyla brook -- The oven bird -- Bond and free -- Birches -- Pea brush -- Putting in the seed -- A time to talk -- The cow in apple time -- An encounter -- Range-finding -- The hill wife -- The bonfire -- A girl's garden -- Locked out -- The last word of a bluebird -- 'Out, Out -- ' -- Brown's descent -- The gum-gatherer -- The line-gang -- The vanishing red -- Snow -- The sound of the trees -- New Hampshire -- A star in a stone boat -- The census-taker -- The star-splitter -- Maple -- The axe-helve -- The grindstone -- Paul's wife -- Wild grapes -- Place for a third -- Two witches -- An empty threat -- A fountain, a bottle, a donkey's ears and some books -- I will sing you one-o -- Fragmentary blue -- Fire and ice -- In a disused graveyard -- Dust of snow -- To E.T. -- Nothing gold can stay -- The runaway -- The aim was song -- Stopping by woods on a snowy evening -- For once, then, something -- Blue-butterfly day -- The onset -- To earthward -- Good-bye and keep cold -- Two look at two -- Not to keep -- A brook in the city -- The kitchen chimney -- Looking for a sunset bird in winter -- A boundless moment -- Evening in a sugar orchard -- Gathering leaves -- The valley's singing day -- Misgivings -- A hillside thaw -- Plowmen -- On a tree fallen across the road -- Our singing strength -- The lockless door -- The need of being versed in country things -- Spring pools -- The freedom of the moon -- The rose family -- Fireflies in the garden -- Atmosphere -- Devotion -- On going unnoticed -- The cocoon -- A passing glimpse -- A peck of gold -- Acceptance -- Once by the Pacific -- Lodged -- A minor bird -- Bereft -- Tree at my window -- The peaceful shepherd -- The thatch -- A winter eden -- The flood -- Acquainted with the night -- The lovely shall be choosers -- West-running brook -- Sand dunes -- Canis Major -- A soldier -- Immigrants -- Hannibal -- The flower boat -- The times table -- The investment -- The last mowing -- The birthplace -- The door in the dark -- Dust in the eyes -- Sitting by a bush in broad sunlight -- The armful -- What fifty said -- Riders -- On looking up by chance at the constellations -- The bear -- The egg and the machine

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